Music
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 9/13-9/19
This week, The Monthly Rumpus, The Peanut Butter Plan, Rebecca Solnit at the JCCSF, and Indie Mart at Thee Parkside! Monday 9/13: It’s the second Monday of the month, which can only mean one thing: The Monthly Rumpus! The September…
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This Is What We’re Jamming To
We’ve pretty much been listening to Chaka Khan‘s “You Got The Love” on repeat here at Rumpus HQ. Enjoy:
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Letters, Characters, and Ten-Degree Shifts: The Rumpus Interview With Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman’s fiction is elusive stuff. His is a body of work that’s equally at home rooting narratives in history or playing textual games with the reader. Even his more historically-based work delves into unexpected societal corners, including post-Cold War…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 9/6-9/12
This week, a picnic-y Labor Day edition of Quiet Lightning, The Rumpus Book Club In-Person Discussion, the 33rd episode of Literary Death Match, and the 12th annual Power To The Peaceful festival in Golden Gate Park. Monday 9/6: The Quiet…
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Dan Weiss Thinks About Music Too Much #5: Allo Darlin’
1. Sometimes, at the top of this site, it says “you don’t co-op pop culture, pop culture co-ops you.” A good musician friend of mine named Adam Balbo likes to say that Michael Jackson lyrics and He-Man toys are the…
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Introducing Crud Wizard
“My favorite band is Iron Maiden and I hate Reagan, and hippies, and Jesus.” Via Westword, I came across Crud Wizard, a nine year-old’s metal blog. His dad is helping him, and that’s pretty obvious, but his voice still comes…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/23-8/29
This week in San Francisco: an Adult Writers’ Seminar at 826 Valencia, a record release at Jellyfish Gallery, sweet animation at A.T.A., and, as always, art and poetry in The Mission — This time around at the Viracocha Variety Show.…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #25: 100% Nepotism
It’s the Internet, where I am plying my trade here, and it’s meant to be the Wild West—unregulated, unruly, unpredictable.
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Notable New York, This Week 8/16 – 8/22
This week in New York Summer is Short, John Brandon makes a Citrus pit stop, Gary Shteyngart is Super Sad, MGMT is inspired by sex balls, Scott Pilgrim takes over as this week’s Saturday Movie Pick and The Comfort of…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/16-8/22
This week: m.g. martin’s book launch at Space Gallery, explore some linear and visceral expressions of time, Jennifer Jajah Hearts Hamas, and celebrate the birth of another Mission art gallery at Hijinks. Monday 8/16: Do you hate having to explore…
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Greil Marcus on Biography, Memoir, And Art
“To trace anybody’s work, what they produce, what they put into the world, what you or I respond to, to somebody’s life, their biography, is utterly reductionist. Some people are very uncomfortable with the idea they can be moved, they can…
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Where did all the music go?
Breaking it down. THE OLD GUARD Just want to return to the old days. What are the old days? The nineties. Yes, the CD replacement business still existed, you could only buy albums, which were exorbitantly priced, and Napster had not yet…